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I am obviously not understanding some real basics here. Someone please help....
My DNS-323 has 2 1TB WD drives in RAID 1 configuration. I had it up and running, it was serving music to the entire house. However.....
Upon initial setup, I realized reboots of my computer were a real pain. I want the DNS-323 to permanently mount as my K: drive. It doesn't though. With every reboot of my machine, I have to reuse the EasyLink utility on the install CD (Heaven forbid I ever loose it). Even with the utility, logging on is an adventure. I just rebooted my machine for the first time in 3 weeks, and now I can't access it at all. While the EasyLink utility sees the DNS-323 and it shows up as a network resource in Windows Explorer, I cannot mount it with the utility or read it in Explorer. Using the utility, i just keep getting "Failed to Map Drive". When I try to access it through My Network Places in Explorer, it says I don't have permissions.
This drive be completely accessible anywhere to anyone on my network without password. I also should not have to use an install CD everytime I reboot my personal computer in order to use this device. What am I doing wrong here folks?
Thanks,
Lloyd
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Start by making sure that your DNS-323 has a static ip address and make sure that it is in the same workgroup as your Windows systems.
Next map the drive using Windows - open My Computer, you should see My Network Places, right click and select Map Network Drive, choose your drive letter, browse to your folder, check the Reconnect at Logon box and click Finish.
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It looks like the same problem I have;
I always shut down my PC at day ends. When starting again sometimes I can map the DNS via the easy search util the first tine, but most of the times I cam't map it. Login and password are correct (checked it), the device shows in network places and I can acces as administrator via "configuration" button. I use a static IP adress and my OS is XP.
2 questions:
* what else can I trie to map the DNS (sometimes rebooting (DNS of PC) helps, but not always)
* how can I make it reconnect at logon? --> I don't completely understand the description fordem makes; which folder should I browse to?
thx in advance
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e-vic wrote:
It looks like the same problem I have;
I always shut down my PC at day ends. When starting again sometimes I can map the DNS via the easy search util the first tine, but most of the times I cam't map it. Login and password are correct (checked it), the device shows in network places and I can acces as administrator via "configuration" button. I use a static IP adress and my OS is XP.
2 questions:
* what else can I trie to map the DNS (sometimes rebooting (DNS of PC) helps, but not always)
* how can I make it reconnect at logon? --> I don't completely understand the description fordem makes; which folder should I browse to?
thx in advance
The one you want to map a drive letter to.
Windows networking allows you to map a drive letter to a shared folder on another system - for the sake of this discussion, we'll use the DNS-323 as our "other system".
In the Map Network Drive window, when you click on browse, you should be shown your network, you "drill down" or expand the different items, you should see all of the computers on your network, you then select your DNS-323 and you should see Volume_1 - you can select that as the folder you wish to map, or you can expand that and map a folder in there - assuming that you do have directories created within Volume_1.
Perhaps what needs to be done here is the folks who are new to networks do some research rather than jumping in at the deep end - http://compnetworking.about.com/od/basi … orking.htm
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lthrower wrote:
I am obviously not understanding some real basics here. Someone please help....
My DNS-323 has 2 1TB WD drives in RAID 1 configuration. I had it up and running, it was serving music to the entire house. However.....
Upon initial setup, I realized reboots of my computer were a real pain. I want the DNS-323 to permanently mount as my K: drive. It doesn't though. With every reboot of my machine, I have to reuse the EasyLink utility on the install CD (Heaven forbid I ever loose it). Even with the utility, logging on is an adventure. I just rebooted my machine for the first time in 3 weeks, and now I can't access it at all. While the EasyLink utility sees the DNS-323 and it shows up as a network resource in Windows Explorer, I cannot mount it with the utility or read it in Explorer. Using the utility, i just keep getting "Failed to Map Drive". When I try to access it through My Network Places in Explorer, it says I don't have permissions.
This drive be completely accessible anywhere to anyone on my network without password. I also should not have to use an install CD everytime I reboot my personal computer in order to use this device. What am I doing wrong here folks?
Thanks,
Lloyd
Sometimes you'll experience a bug where you can see the DNS on your network but can't access the drives even if you reboot the device and/or your machine but you can still access the configuration page... Simple solution is to go to the configuration page, under setup the device and just save the settings... this'll 'reset' the device and the volumes should be available again...
As for auto mapping the network drive, it's pretty easy... Go to windows explorer, under tools menu then 'Map Network Drive'... Choose a drive letter you want and then click on browse... Go to your network places, look for the DNS 323 and select the volume you want... Hit OK and then make sure the reconnect at logon checkbox is checked and you're all set...
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